The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MISS DICKINSON the young lady who was in
| suited by the late Colonel Valentine Baker, is
| still unmarried.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, who married man
quarter of a century younger than herself,
is devoted to the pleasures of the table,. Her
favorte dish is terrapin, and she likes at least
quart
THE late Matthew O'Really Dease. formerly
NJ. P. for County Louth, Ire!a nd. left the bulk
of his fortune about $500, 900. to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to be applied to the payment
Of the public debt.
Mr. CLEVELAND has a superstitious streak in
his makeup which has doubtless received Sc
shock by the breaking of the large mirror
which had for many years ornamented the
Presidents state dining table.
WORD has come of the death of Emile Marco
de Saint Hilaire. He was page of Napoleon
Bonaparte and his mother was maid of honor
to Queen Hortense. He wrote some interesting
volumes of "reminiscences of the First Empire. :
Mr.. BLAINE has been having his portrait
painted in Paris by the famous artist Healy, who
has placed canvas the faces of great many
modern European celebri ties. Some weeks ago
Mr.. Healy called Mr. Blaine and asked the
Maine statesman to grant him few sittings.
Mr.. Blaine consented and the portrait will soon
be finished. Healy says that Mr.. Blaine has a
nose especially fitted for caricature, and the
most peculiar dropping OF the mouth ne has ever
seen.
MIS-. HENRY WARD BEEcHER is occasioning
some anxiety to her friends. she has been to
her children. since rne death of her husband.
Though offered home in the family of Colonel
Beecher, her eldest son, she has preferred to
occupy suite of apartments in the Water View
flats. Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, where
she lives with housekeeper. Lately she has
expressed a desire to occupy the parlors of
Plymouth Church and to make her home there,
but at the suggestion of her this request
has been denied her by the trustees, and it is
al hiatt nIa1 has CaI oa1
lations to exist between some of the leading
people of the church and Mrs. Beecher. To
those who are familiar with all the facts this
episode is regarded one of the inf1rnities of
advanced age and as having no other signi6-
ance.
A PUBLIC school teacher is credited with the
statement that there is no man living who Knows
every of the e, 600 words in Websters I'M
abriged dictionary, nor half nor third of them.
Nor is there man that could define them if he
We're asked. Shakespeare who had the richest
vocabulary used by any Englishpan. employed
only 16, 900 words. Milton could pick out from
5000, but the average man, a graduate from
of the great universities, rarely has
cabulary of than 5000 1000 words.
There Americans born and bred who
trive to express all their wants and opinions in
800 words. and i'll the rural districts the knowl-
edge of $50 or 200 words is sufficient to carry a
man through the world. SO the unabridged die
tionary is cluttered up with CO. 600 or more tech
nical obsolete words that you never hear
in ordinary conversation see in ordinary books
and newspapers"
THE friends of Joseph c. Mackin of Chicago,
who is serving term in Joliet prison for cleo
ton frauds, are interesting themselve to get
him pardon, on the ground that he is suffer
ing largely for the sins of others. His keepers
report that he has been model convict. When
first taken to Joliet, he set at work olish-
ing marble; and the desk of nearly every news
paper man in Chicago with whom he
quainted is now ornamented with marble
paper weight across the top of which is the re-
cipients name Mike Mcdonald, the notori-
Gus gambler and political boss of Chicago. is
still Mackin's friend and patron Presuming
that the efforts to secure pardon will be
cessful it is said that Mcdonald has secured the
lease of premises at the intersection of two of
the greatest throughfares of Chicago. where
Mackin is to be installed upon his release as the
presiding genius of bar-room the splendors OF
which promise to outshine anything of the kind
in this country.